Tag: Book Review
A vision for a Plenary
In his pared-back but very timely new book, Foundations: Preparing the Church in Australia for the Plenary Council and Beyond, Archbishop Julian Porteous of...
Not so dead and buried, after all
All the evidence around us points to the fact that Christianity is in decline in Australia.
Two generations ago, virtually every member of Australian society...
Book review: The Great Discovery
Fascinating story of a prominent couple's conversion
In Ulf Ekman, a former Protestant pastor – whom some described as the Billy Graham of Sweden -...
Great books on parenting
Kim Cameron-Smith cuts through a great deal of fluff that’s out there in the Christian/Catholic parenting world and gets to the heart of the...
His Angels at our Side Book Review
Writing about angels might seem to be a displacement activity, given the world’s myriad problems and the Church’s own internal difficulties.
But as Fr John...
33 Days to Greater Glory Review: Joy of knowing the Father
Four years ago, on a men’s retreat, I heard for the first time that it was MY job to be the face of God...
Violence in the Name of God Book Review
Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity by Joel Hodge, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
This work is the latest in Bloomsbury’s...
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St Vincent’s Hospital, Lismore, celebrates 100 years of care
Country's only diocesan-owned hospital is unique
One winter’s day in 1921 four Sisters of Charity boarded a stream train at Sydney’s dusty Central Station for...
